Thermal characteristics and their relevance to spontaneous ignition of refuse plastics/paper fuel

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-6

  Li, Xin Rui ^a   Lim, Woo Sub ^a   Iwata, Yusaku ^a   Koseki, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FIRE AND DISASTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calorimetry; Refuse paper and plastic fuel (RPF); Self heating; Spontaneous ignition; Thermal property

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CALORIMETERS; CALORIMETRY; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELASTOMERS; EXOTHERMIC REACTIONS; FUEL STORAGE; FUELS; HEATING; HEATING RATE; HYBRID MATERIALS; PAPER; PLASTICITY; PLASTICS; POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; REACTION KINETICS; THEOREM PROVING; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THERMOPLASTICS; WASTE PAPER; WIRE;

ADIABATIC CONDITIONS; CALVET CALORIMETERS; CHEMICAL CHANGES; CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; DTA CURVES; ENDOTHERMIC EFFECTS; ENDOTHERMIC PEAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURES; EXOTHERMIC PEAKS; EXOTHERMIC PROCESSES; INITIAL EXOTHERMIC REACTIONS; ISOTHERMAL MEASUREMENTS; MEASUREMENT CONDITIONS; PILE-UP; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; REFUSE PAPER AND PLASTIC FUEL (RPF); SAMPLE SIZES; SELF-HEATING; SOLID FUELS; SPONTANEOUS IGNITION; SPONTANEOUS IGNITION TESTS; THERMAL ACTIVITY MONITORS; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL BEHAVIORS; THERMAL EXPLOSIONS; THERMAL PROPERTY; WEIGHT LOSSES; WIRE MESHES;

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION;

BUBBLES; CALORIMETERS; CALORIMETRY; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMBUSTION; ELASTOMERS; FUELS; HEATING; PAPER; PLASTICITY; PLASTICS; POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENE; POLYVINYL CHLORIDE; THERMAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 57949098759     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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